AEF Presents: Arca
Curated by Plural Artist Management

As one of the most unconventional and intriguing figures in electronic music of the past decade, Venezuelan-born, Barcelona-based Arca (Alejandra Ghersi) explores the outer reaches of performance and sound design while investigating themes of identity, sexuality, and personal emancipation across the vastness of artistic expression.

Arca’s music is animated by stark contrasts—she can manoeuvre between explosive and introspective, chaotic to affectionate. Her music is sharply attuned and incorporates emotional and psychological layers that result in both extreme and deeply meaningful works of autobiographical art. Drawing from an astounding spectrum of sounds, genres and influences that traverse industrial, glitch, and ambient, she crafts a nonpareil universe that is perpetually restless in its experimentation and reinvention.

Since the beginning of her career, she has offered her talent as both a producer and songwriter to artists such as Björk, Rosalía and FKA Twigs, demonstrating extraordinary agility by shifting between roles. Every work signed off by Arca is foremost a personal exploration and a challenge to herself; by pushing the envelope further, album after album, she seeks to deconstruct the established binary systems and dismantle everyday stereotypes.

For Arca, to transgress is to first acknowledge that each one of us is in a state of constant reformation and it is only within this insight that one can find comfort in the in-between. In this light, her Mutants1000000 community offers a space for those embracing her ethos of fluidity and self-actualisation.

Her discography includes the albums Xen (2014), Mutant (2015), and the self-titled Arca (2017), as well as the Grammy-nominated KiCK series spanning five albums (2020-2021) that reshaped Latin pop, club music, and experimental sound. In addition to the re-release of her landmark &&&&& mixtape on PAN, Arca presented The Light Comes in the Name of the Voice at Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection in collaboration with 4D Sound last year, which followed her groundbreaking multi-night show in 2023 at New York’s Park Avenue Armory titled Mutant; Destrudo.

The evening will open perfectly with Greek musician, singer, songwriter, and artist Evita Manji, known for their powerful debut album Spandrel?, released in early 2023. With a formidable list of festival appearances including Krakow’s Unsound, MUTEK Mexico and Mucho Flow in Portugal, in addition to shows at acclaimed venues such as London’s Southbank Centre, Volksbühne Berlin, and Phoenix Central Park in Sydney, Evita continues to expand their artistic spectrum through notable collaborations, such as with spatial sound studio MONOM and multi-instrumentalist Ludwig Wandinger.

On May 31, they will present a sound uniquely their own, where intricate sound design meets hyperreal electronica, all filtered through a signature approach to vocal performance that equally embodies ecstasy and anguish.

Plural Artist Management is an Athens-based booking agency, events platform, and creative team operating in Greece and Internationally.